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Japan’s competition watchdog executed a high‑profile on‑site inspection of Microsoft’s Tokyo offices in late February, opening a formal probe into whether the software giant’s licensing, pricing and technical practices steered customers toward Microsoft Azure and made it harder or more expensive...

Microsoft's Japanese arm says it is “fully cooperating” with the Japan Fair Trade Commission after investigators executed an on‑site inspection of Microsoft Japan’s Tokyo offices as part of a probe into whether the company’s cloud‑related licensing and commercial practices steered customers...

Japan’s competition authority carried out an on‑site inspection of Microsoft Japan’s Tokyo offices on Feb. 25, 2026, as part of an antitrust probe into whether the company’s cloud‑related licensing and technical practices tied to Microsoft Azure have discouraged customers from using rival cloud...

Japan’s competition enforcers have executed an on-site inspection of Microsoft’s Japanese offices after local media and international reporting said the Japan Fair Trade Commission (JFTC) is investigating whether Microsoft improperly limited customers’ ability to run Microsoft software on rival...

Microsoft is teaming with SpaceX’s Starlink to push high‑speed satellite internet into underserved communities around the world, a move that folds orbital connectivity into Microsoft’s cloud expansion playbook and shifts the battleground for the “next billion” cloud customers into low Earth...

Microsoft’s decades‑long effort to recast itself as the tech industry’s “moral conscience” took a jarring turn this month after leaked procurement files and investigative reporting revealed that U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) dramatically expanded its use of Microsoft Azure...

Microsoft’s terse denial — that it “does not believe” U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) is using its technology for mass civilian surveillance — has landed at the center of a fresh debate about cloud scale, algorithmic capabilities, and corporate responsibility after reporting that...

Microsoft’s cloud and AI engines — the same infrastructure the company says it polices through terms of service — are now the focus of a renewed debate over corporate responsibility after leaked documents showed U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) dramatically expanded its Azure...

The leaked files published this week show that U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement dramatically increased its use of Microsoft’s Azure cloud during the second half of 2025 — more than tripling stored volumes on Azure in six months and expanding the agency’s consumption of Microsoft...

Marlink’s decision to integrate Microsoft’s Azure ExpressRoute into its managed maritime network stack is a pragmatic — and potentially game-changing — move for vessel operators and remote-site enterprises that rely on satellite and hybrid connectivity to reach cloud services reliably. The...

Simplilearn is staging a live webinar on February 17, 2026 that positions its Microsoft-aligned Data Analyst program as a fast, job-focused route into analytics work — a session that promises a detailed walk-through of curriculum, hands‑on projects, and how Microsoft course certificates and...

Valve has told customers it can no longer lock in exact launch dates or prices for the Steam Machine family because AI-driven memory and storage shortages have materially changed component availability and costs since the devices were announced, and the company will “revisit our exact shipping...

Nvidia’s recent second thoughts about its headline-grabbing OpenAI pact are more than a private spat between two Silicon Valley giants — they are a flashing caution light for Microsoft, whose cloud, products and bet‑the‑company AI strategy are deeply entangled with OpenAI’s fortunes. Background...

Weather forecasting is part science, part engineering—and part humility. The weather’s raw data are messy, the physics are fiendishly complex, and the atmosphere itself is a chaotic system that refuses easy answers. Yet over the past 24 months we’ve watched two tectonic shifts collide: the rise...

Microsoft’s Maia 200 is not a subtle step — it’s a direct, public escalation in the hyperscaler silicon arms race: an inference‑first AI accelerator Microsoft says is built on TSMC’s 3 nm process, packed with massive on‑package HBM3e memory, and deployed in Azure with the explicit aim of...

Delaware’s Belgian arm has quietly elevated two long-serving senior technologists — Nicompetitorlas Maes and Kenny Decorte — to partner, a move that tightens the consultancy’s grip on two strategic value pillars: sector-focused ERP delivery and Microsoft-cloud-led data platforms. The personnel...

TomTom’s latest announcement that it is deepening its production-grade integration with Microsoft Azure—bringing Azure OpenAI in Microsoft Foundry Models, Azure Cosmos DB, and Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) into its automotive stack—marks a concrete step from experimental voice assistants toward...

OHM Advisors has migrated its enterprise GIS to Esri ArcGIS Enterprise 11.5 on Microsoft Azure in partnership with GEO Jobe, replacing a mixed ArcGIS Online / on‑premises footprint with a centralized, cloud‑first Web GIS designed for performance, scale, and better cross‑office collaboration...

Elon Musk’s latest legal salvo has unspooled a new layer of irony into the long, tangled story of OpenAI and Microsoft: court exhibits unsealed in a high‑profile lawsuit show Musk not only criticized the Microsoft–OpenAI alliance in public, but privately urged OpenAI to move its compute from...

Microsoft Azure has quietly become the default backbone for enterprise IT, and by 2026 the platform’s role in cloud computing, AI, and hybrid infrastructure is the primary reason demand for Azure skills and services is higher than ever. The shift away from on-premises hardware toward elastic...